Huahine

Date: 1778 - 1788 - 1779

By: Cleveley, James, active 1776-1780; Cleveley, John, 1747-1786; Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812; Thomas Martyn (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-661

Description: Canoes, dwellings, the Resolution and Discovery at anchor in Fare Harbour, Huahine, Society Islands This copy is severely faded. It hung in the entrance hall to the Alexander Turnbull Library in Bowen Street for many years. A better quality copy (a proof before lettering) is held at C-036-020 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) framed. Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 430 x 600 mm Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. In its original frame. See letters of A. H. Turnbull, v. 4, 1898, p.401.

Date: 1846

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3594

Description: Principally concerning the French occupation of Tahiti and the Pritchard affair, concern about French interest in Hawaii and in other islands. Some material on trade between Tahiti and the Australasian colonies. Includes a plan of the Tahiti Archipelago. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1976]

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-930

Description: Photographs recording a journey through the island nations of the South Pacific which include Fiji, Tahiti and other islands in the Society group and the Tuamotu Archipeligo, Hawaii, American Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, and Noumea in New Caledonia. Subjects include the principal towns, the local people and some traditional buildings, occupations such as fishing, tourist excursion operators, and traders in shops and markets. Also beaches and other scenic landscapes. The last three pages of photographs are a record of delegates and events at the 16th South Pacific Conference held in Noumea. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 22 colour and 378 black and white photographic prints. Physical Description: Photograph album with colour and black and white photographic prints mounted on magnetic pages, 30 x 35 cm.

Date: 1846-1848

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3595

Description: Principally concerning the French occupation of Tahiti about French interest in Hawaii and in other islands. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1787 - 1966

Reference: C-058-007

Description: Printed by Pictorial Publications Ltd. Proof plate from an aquatint after James Cleveley (not from ATL copy) for 1966 calendar of A B Donald Ltd, for Pacific Islands distribution Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 312 x 434 mm

Date: 1880

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-061-026

Description: Shows natives in European dress, with huts and a school in the background. Signed: H.A.S. Painted while the artist was serving as paymaster on board H.M.S. Pelican. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 292 mm

Date: Jun 1811

By: Warner, Gregory, 1779-

Reference: MS-Papers-7427

Description: Account written by Warner in 1811 of his time in Tahiti as a surgeon with the London Missionary Society covering the period from 1805 to 1810. He describes his arrival, first impressions, various practices of the people, religious beliefs, sexual behaviour, medical problems, local disputes, his departure from Otaheite for Huaheine and his subsequent return, and his final departure in 1810. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Copy also in Micro-MS-Coll-20-1962 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1973

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10670-285

Description: Black and white photographic prints, dated June 1973. Some prints have caption information inscribed verso. Includes: - "Fare Bay, Huahine, French Polynesia" - "Fare harbour, Huahine" - "Ancient Marae, Huahine" - "One of Huahine's 29 maraes, French Polynesia" - "Waitress at Bali Hai Hotel, Raiatea, Frech Polynesia" - "Girl on Fare wharf, Huahine, French Polynesia". Title transcribed from original enclosure. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints.

Date: 1976

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10670-287

Description: Black and white photographic prints, dated 1976. Some prints have caption information inscribed verso. Includes: - "Sunset, Papeete, Tahiti" - "Huahine, Les Isles Sous le Vent [Îles Sous-le-Vent], French Polynesia, Fare Bay". Title transcribed from original enclosure. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). 18 b&w original photographic print(s) contact prints (total of 34 frames/images). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints and contact prints. Transfers: Negatives originally enclosed with this group of prints at Library reference 1/4-136193-F to 1/4-136207-F, and 35mm-112993 and 35mm-112998.. Processing information: Negatives were separated from prints and rehoused for reasons of preservation and storage.

Date: 1973

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10670-292

Description: Black and white photographic prints, dated 1973. No captions. Title transcribed from original enclosure. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints.

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1822 - 1843 - 1836 - 1824

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Elliot, Robert James, 1790-1849; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-049

Description: Shows in the right foreground, a fishing boat with one end raised and thickened, trailing a net on an outrigging in the water. l boats further off, and the shore in the background shows dwellings at the water's edge. There are mountains in the background. Plate 167 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist, and Chavannes as the engraver. However, the engraving in the Italian edition is cruder. Other Titles - Archipel de Taiti - Vue du nord-est du district de Fari a Houahine Other Titles - Tahiti - view of the north-east of the district of Fari on Huahine Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 167 See engraving after Captain R J Elliot, at C-008-003, showing the ship "John Williams" in the Bay of Hauhine [sic]. The background detail appears to be related to the present work, and indeed must be the only part of the picture to have been copied from Elliot, as the "John Williams" was launched in 1844, supposedly well after Elliot was in Tahiti. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1776 - 1782 - 1779 - 1792

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Hogg and Company

Reference: A-111-050

Description: View across the bay at Huahine, the beach fringed with coconut palms, Tahitian canoes at the water's edge, a a few buildings visible, and Captain Cook's ships the Resolution and Discovery at anchor in the stream. There are tall hills across the bay Published in Anderson, G. W. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages. [London, Another edition, ca 1791 or 2]. Plate 109. In the 1st edition this plate is engraved by Hawkins. Derived from an engraving by Byrne after Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784, Pl31 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 217 x 347 mm on sheet 232 x 383 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1805-1811, 2002

By: Warner, Gregory, 1779-

Reference: MS-Papers-7432

Description: Comprises photocopy of original of Warner's sketch of Tahiti from National Library of Scotland with transcription by Richards. Warner wrote his account in 1811 following his time in Tahiti as a surgeon with the London Missionary Society from 1805 to 1810. He describes his arrival, first impressions, various practices of the people, religious beliefs, sexual behaviour, medical problems, local disputes, his departure from Otaheiti for Huaheine and his subsequent return and his final departure in 1810. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) and typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr R Richards, Paremata, Porirua City, May 2002

Date: 1800 - 1777 - 1778

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: B-054-012

Description: Shows natives and, in the harbour, canoes and ships At head of plate: plxciii. Derived from an engraving "A view of Huaheine', after J. Webber in: A voyage... [by Cook and King]... 1784. v 2, pl. xxxi. Original drawing made on Cook's 3rd voyage Other Titles - View of Huahine Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Emgraving 216 x 368 mm

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1822 - 1843 - 1836 - 1824

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Elliot, Robert James, 1790-1849; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Chavannes, active 1835

Reference: A-318-048

Description: Shows a large tree in the centre foreground, leaning to the right. In the background is a bay with dwellings along the water's edge. There is a group of three in the foreground and another group along the shore at the left. Plate 164 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist, and Chavannes as the engraver. Other Titles - Archipel de Taiti - Vue de l'ile Huahini Other Titles - Ile Wahine Huahine Other Titles - Tahiti - view of the island of Huahine Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 164 Artist is variously described as travelling in the 1780s and the 1820s. Artist's idea not clear; he may be Commander Robert Elliot, b 1767 (as ascribed by the National Library of Australia which holds the original oil painting), or Captain Robert J Elliot. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845; Duncan, Edward, 1803-1882; Elliot, Robert James, 1790-1849

Reference: C-008-003

Description: Shows the village of Fare, the missionary station, harbour and the sailing ship John Williams, with the London Missionary Society former ship Camden, lying at anchor in the background. A Tahitian canoe is in the water close to the ship and homes and other buildings are visible at the water's edge. Dimensions of ship given. cf. oil by R. Spencer 1845, in Rex Nan Kivell collection, National Library of Australia, (Item 22), an identical view probably based on this print Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 318 x 458 mm

Date: 1777

From: Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :[A collection of drawings made by William Ellis on H.M.S. Discovery and Resolution during Captain Cook's third voyage to the Pacific 1776-1780]

Reference: A-264-027-1

Description: A nearly frontal head and shoulders view of a young woman, her head resting on her left hand. She wears draped cloth around her shoulders Joppien / Smith number for this drawing is 3.147. According to their text, this is likely to be the young woman who on Raiatea in Oct 1777 warned Captains Cook and Clerke that there was a plot to kill them. Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation Other Titles - A portrait of a girl of Huaheine (Joppien / Smith title) Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 'Girls of Huaheine' in ink. Also number in pencil top right 1.147 crossed out with 156 substituted Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid paper, 250 x 185 mm Provenance: Astley family; sold 1974.

Date: 1770 - 1788

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: A-293-004

Description: An engraving after Sydney Parkinson, showing an open-sided building with religious significance, with offering table. There is a small pond beside the building, with two figures bathing. This engraving has been cut from the top of the page of illustrations, facing page 68, in Thomas Bankes' "New Royal authentic and complete system of universal geography" [1788?]. The name of the engraver is not specified. Some engravers of other images within this book are identified. Other Titles - Huahine Other Titles - Fare atua Extended Title - From Thomas Bankes' "A new royal authentic and complete system of universal geography ...". London, for C Cooke [1788? Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Engraved for Bankes's New system of Geography, published by Royal Authority Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured engraving, 115 x 176 mm, on sheet cropped to 175 x 223 mm.

Date: 1777 - 1790

From: Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?]

Reference: E-329-f-003

Description: Copy of the engraving after John Webber 'View of Huaheine' published 1784. Shows Fare Harbour with coconut palms, Tahitian dwellings, several canoes and the Resolution and Discovery at anchor to the right. Verso shows handwritten text in Dutch. There is some variation in the arrangement of the figures and boats between this and the engraved version. Other Titles - View of the island Huaheine [translation] Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also verso covered in text in Dutch describing the Society Islands Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm

Date: 1845

By: Speer, John, -1848

Reference: A-191-013

Description: View of a curved bay, with houses along the water's edge under palm trees, with bush-covered hills behind. There is one substantial larger house or church at the water's edge. Two figures paddle a small boat with outrigger in the centre foreground, and there is a boat with a sail at the right. A church at Huahine (perhaps the building seen on the foreshore in this scene) is mentioned in the account of the voyage of the ship "Collingwood" on which the artist sailed. See "Four years in the Pacific", by Lieut. the Honourable Fred Walpole (London, 1849), Volume 2, page 167. Other Titles - Fare Oohare Ouhare Owhare Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J Speer fecit; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 178 x 235 mm.